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RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM; SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders; DULAC, Edmund, illustrator; POGANY, Willy, illustrator - Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyáM

Title: Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyáM
Description: London: The Curwen Press, 1980. The Cecile E. MacTaggart Rubáiyát illustrated by Dulac and Pogany Limited to 250 Copies Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM. DULAC, Edmund, illustrator. POGANY, Willy, illustrator. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. A personal selection from the five editions of Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrations Edmund Dulac and Willy Pogany. Calligraphy Margery O. Erickson. [Edited by Cecile E. MacTaggart]. London: Designed and Printed at the Curwen Press, 1980. This edition is limited to two hundred copies, signed by the Editor and numbered , of which this is No. 47 [signed by the Editor] Cecile E. Mactaggart. Two volumes (one folio and one oblong quarto). (12 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 308 x 213 mm. and 7 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches; 195 x 285 mm.). [111], [1, blank] pp. including 12 full page color illustrations by Edmund Dulac and Willy Pogany; [87], [1, blank] pp. The second volume contains the comparative text printed from the five editions. Bound in 1980 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Full red niger morocco, covers elaborately decorated in gilt, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers [and] full red cloth housed in a fleece-lined quarter red morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Both volumes housed together in the original fleece-lined red cloth with rectangular marbled paper panels. Minimal fading to spines otherwise fine. .

Keywords: SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders DULAC, Edmund, illustrator POGANY, Willy, illustrator

Price: US$ 2500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05301

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